2019 Mazda3 vs Hyundai Elantra // Daily Drivers Duel

oh thank you seriously I just bought this car and driving it that was my first thumbs up man doesn't it look good on the inside? It's very nice, yes, so should I put my bags in the trunk? Yes, yes, of course, I just closed it. door for a second, yeah, I don't think it was that nice that you're seeing the acceleration. I'm Thomas and I'm James and today we have the angriest compacts on the market, the all-new Mazda 3 in the refreshed Hyundai Elantra. Not long ago, if a friend stood in front of a Mazda and said here's my new premium sedan, you would have said "we are," but recently Mazda has been trying to change that perception and nowhere is that more true than in The all-new Mazda 3 is more than just an update, the

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master 3 is the beauty of the ball, sitting on an all-new platform and has been designed with calm and quiet in mind, an evolution of the SKYACTIV architecture of masters, the 3 now has better sound insulation matched only by the roomy and drastically improved interior and this time all-wheel drive is even offered, although we're seeing the front-drive sedan in its GT form with a familiar-feeling Skyactiv-G engine with all this online.

So those angry eyes in the Elantra don't look as intimidating as they might have before. Now those angry eyes are there because Hyundai has also been busy making some pretty eye-catching visual modifications to the Elantra. We will talk about these changes a little later. But what you do need to know is that this is the ultimate version, which means it has every technological advantage possible, including a safe exit alarm that warns you if a car is coming up behind you before you open the door and step out into the driveway. road. All of these cars have a large trunk and both have decent and comparable rear legroom and headroom, but today we'll find out which one is better to live in and which may be more fun to drive before we get started.

Make sure you subscribe. to the channel if you haven't already and hit the notification bell to watch our videos as soon as they go up. Also follow our Instagram at the throttle house to see silly moments like this and things we're filming before they go live. YouTube welcome to the Mazda 3 very exciting okay so this one has the 2.5 liter skyactiv-g pumping. I think the Canadian power is 186 horsepower, which is a lot more than what Thomas is going down and I'm sure in Canada the models are already original, anyone who has thought about ordering one. From these you will already know how strange the models are in these USA and Canada.

This one has the 6-speed Auto and you can only get the Grand Touring GT one in the 6-speed Auto in Canada. Very good, the renewed Hyundai Elantra, some things have been changed. Otherwise it's pretty much the same car. Well, this is a 2-liter four-cylinder engine that makes 147 horsepower and 132 pound-feet of torque. It's a bit of a shameful number, honestly, so the sport mode of the naturally aspirated engine is respectable, it's respectable, it really starts to pull harder. at the top of the rev range which makes it fun, but sport mode is nice because it holds the revs so when you need to use power it goes straight back to it.

However, I don't think many people will play sports. Modifying this all the time is that the car is fast, not even close, it's actually quite slow, it's one of the slowest cars I've driven all year and it doesn't make very good noise, well other than that this is an Atkins in In one engine cycle, it leaves the intake valve open a little longer, which means that less fuel is used to launch the piston at its size, which means that the car is quite efficient, but the sacrifice is torque. I have more torque than this car but actually ridiculously good fuel efficiency on the way here on the highway, I consumed 5 liters per 400 kilometers over a very long period of time, now it averages out when I whip it on a back road at 8 liters per 400 kilometers and those numbers are these in the United States and On the way here, James was getting 7.7, so this car has G vectoring control + G vectoring control + is a smart thing and now it doesn't just adjust the power of the engine, it's amazing at the front in a corner, but it also applies some brakes to help the car turn.

So not only does it improve handling, it provides a feeling of calm, a bit like when you think you've lost your phone and then you realize it was in your other hand, so even at low speeds the steering of this car It's quite heavy. to be a preference some people may not like that at all it's strangely heavy it also has paddle shifters so here's how quick the shifts are okay okay it takes a second to get off this comes with an automatic transmission six speed is completely normal, there is nothing to talk about except for the fact that it seems to have some strange trick in the torque converter on the low end, so that when you pull away or just when you put your foot down, it almost feels like the torque converter slips for a second to give you a little bit of extra torque off the line, it's okay here in the corners so this is where the heavy steering feels better because you feel like you have more control over the car.

Oh, I'm going faster than I probably should, but the car is holding on. it feels so planted, but it also has a slight body roll which I like because it increases the engagement and feeling of connection with the car they call Jim Bowie, it unites horse and rider as one and although it normally looks as something negative. If you want to know how fun body roll can be, drive one of the new Miatas. I am not impartial at all. I definitely don't have one. The heaviness of the steering is welcome at speed, in corners and so on.

I have discovered in the city that it is actually strangely heavy, that's enough, it's not so much the weight but as if it has an artificial weight, it hasn't convinced me at all, but the steering wheel itself feels lovely, well, this is where this car really stands out for some reason even though we have the torsion beam rear suspension not the independent suspension you can get on the Elantra sport this car is strangely fun in the corners it feels lively exciting it understeers a bit but it's actually fun it feels quite raw now Mazda has always been good at this class of cars as they are sports cars they are known as such and I can happily say this feels great and strangely they put a torsion bar at the rear while they used to have independent rear suspension.

I don't feel like that's negative. I don't feel any lack of refinement in the rear when turning and this is front wheel drive, this makes me excited to try all wheel drive. Drive and push the power in the corners. Now what this car really does very well is navigate the road. This model has lane keep assist and adaptive cruise control and both work excellently. I am NOT going to make this up on lane keep assist. better than the lane keep assist in the new BMW 3 Series. I have literally driven these back to back so now we are in the snow setting.

I'm just sticking with the 18 inch wheels. Where with the snow tires the ride has been firmer than I thought it would be. I'm sure with the 16 and all seasons and not stupid winter weather it's better, but warming up on Toronto bumps has been pretty jarring, though thanks to the excellent cushioning. it reduces the impact very, very quickly, let's put it back into sport mode for a few more corners. The steering I wouldn't actually call precise, but it's very intuitive. There's a decent amount of information on what type of car it is, but the turn is actually pretty straightforward, it's not even done via LAN transport.

If you buy the Electra Sport, you get 200 horsepower and independent rear suspension and it's a more fun car to drive, but to be honest, it's actually a fun car to drive. on a back road, okay, but now it's time to ruin Thomas's day and go compare exteriors and interiors, okay, it's fun, in fact, when you push them, they're a lot of fun to drive, yeah, and that one It is a very fun place that we will talk about. which in a second for now the exterior style of the master is very good it's the Kodo Kodo design so that means it must have some original wording they say it's a sword strike the attack of a cheetah and then they say it's oh you're kidding right now, I'm not kidding, that's actually their word, it gets weirder, okay, they say he's seductive, I don't know how you feel, seduced is a guy and that's right now, someone has a car for this, yeah , the couple is seductive.

I think it looks great, it's very similar to the front of the new CX-5, yeah okay, its design language is absolutely winning, what's up with this? Although even Akka Volt's angry worker, this total you better put something visual in there, make your own stopwatch, right? now I know exactly what a Pokémon is for those who don't know leave Voltorb right here oh the ghost but there are no voltages like the orb that is red on top oh yeah it looks exactly like one it pretends be a pokeball, yes, exactly this is it. absolutely the most failed visual update of the year in my humble opinion.

Sorry I like the look of the old Elantra and this is no good now this one is fire red although it is a $400 option yeah anyway these are not the fire the seductive and I bought the wine and you have a rare evening with two cars. Can we look back now? Yes that's fine. I think you'll find my taillights are fantastic. Oh, they're as good as a thunderbolt from Zeus. okay, wait before we lose, that's better, well that's how I open my trunk, what is this? It's not hidden, really, you can, it gets dirty, yeah, that's not very messy, that has a mechanical life in the trunk, it's not mechanical, but at least it has a button, okay, that's right. this is a skyactiv-g engine, yeah right, which it's not, it's not sky, it looks like sky activex is coming, yeah, it's really amazing.

I'm actually pretty excited about that engine because it's compression ignition, so that's nice. I would take it in Seoul. red crystal which is absolutely Trump's by the way yes that's fair ok so style totally wins in the interiors yes master first no Elantra first yes ok this is not much different to last year's carbon fiber and some type of control for the different ones. but honestly this is a very useful cabin and I've loved it in every generation it's been, you've got a face right now, damn, what does it look like a generation ahead? Okay, but just tell me about this, I would say with this steering wheel it's okay.

It's very cool, the huge symbol doesn't appear very quickly, but I have one, you see, what's cool doesn't have that now, the most important part of this is all the security technology, I don't understand anything, I'm obsessed As for the Safety technology, works very well in this car. Lane keeping assist works very, very well. The adaptive cruise control works very, very well. I have adaptive cruise and I try to have Lane Assist yeah so literally in cruise for an hour absolutely fine this is what Ament while it looks old yeah it's actually very simple okay it's like if there was a home button.

Apple Carplay works out of the box. I have my map. I'm lucky, but I have my Sirius XM that works perfectly. Everything is shown there. This is just a nice infotainment with hard buttons and a volume knob, but I love the buttons down here, drive mode, select sport mode, it does some things that you can't really notice much and I have a manual parking brake, so Otherwise, this is a fairly simple interior. does the job not amazing not bad its good I like the wheels this is the one on the Veloster too yeah not the Veloster end just the normal shine and it has this little gap here which is nice it looks pretty. premium with this little black stripe, I actually really like it, so I found these seats to be really comfortable for a long time.

Darrin, how are you in the Mazda? What he talked about is that the good materials here are fine, everything is a soft touch up there, this is difficult. At the door I find that there are these colors for my elbows. I really like tan or light colored interiors. This is a very nice interior if you haven't been to Master 3. Can we go to a different universe? Yes. Interior, I told you and this color looks so clean too, this whole set, this section looks so absolutely co-opted and fantastic, let's work around yes, yes, okay, so there are hard buttons, there is volume, they have the scroll knob to move, it doesn't.

The touch screen doesn't matter anymore, for security reasons, they don't want you to touch it, it's too far away, investigate what you like, you won't know, just no, it's not super intuitive, but you get used to it, you get used to it.do you usually, what is home? screen like this, so if I click, you have to hold it, hold it, it will just alternate back and forth, that's cool, those are good graphics, yeah, this is all new, yeah, yeah, this is pretty simple, right, yes, it looks much better than its previous interface. Much, much better than the previous interface, the scroll wheel feels good.

I also have the handbrake pressed. It is not manual. Okay, if we wanted a new Master. 3 sedans would turn with the handbrake. Yes, that's how you get a one star rating. On top of that I have a sport button, yes, this peanut black is already pretty, literally a new range steering wheel from new cars, oh, it's so nice, excellent, they did a really good job, yes, Oh, a nubuck, are these individuals, how does that work? be or you can push up like this oh I guess you can click on it and then toggle right and then we have a digital gauge that emulates the analog so if you press info yeah it's a new shift oh so you can push up your speed there.

Also, yes, I have a head-up display. Uh-oh, it's not a little pop-up screen anymore. There is no proper head-up display. Done well, it's like these materials are really nice. When I press them, you can see it. It may just be the skin beeping, yes, but it is not actually touched gently like a pet, very seductively, perhaps the most seductive car on the market. Yes, this is quite simple. Car. I like it. I like it. It is simple. Is it clean. It's refreshing. It's relaxing. They realize that they've really been looking at a clean living room, yeah, you know, when you don't clean your room and it really puts the noise in your brain, yeah, this is not like they reduce the noise on this, no, it does. they made. very good job with this are fantastic seats Adu or maybe a little narrow for you up here the shoulders are up on this yeah okay yeah but I mean otherwise this is off my elbows waist It's softer than that car, yes, the elbow.

The positions are really nice, the sitting position, you have this crazy telescoping steering wheel, now it's coming again, this is 29 Canadian with all the specs, mind you $1,500 cheaper, it's amazing what you get for the money, honestly, I know Where do I want to drift, right? Now I want to be the sports car you drive in the summer, but it's great to have so much technology in so much design and a car for that price. Inside. Inside. I'm impressed. Just crush their labs. He does it. Does it absolutely? I can't argue that I can drive this now absolutely fine, okay, 186 horsepower is more horsepower than the Elantra.

Okay, I'm excited about this car because the Mazda 3 has always been a really good driving kind of thing. so let's see what it's all about the power delivery it's very naturally aspirated which is good the shifts are reasonably quick it's good it has paddle shifters; I like that, okay, in the Elantra, okay, it makes a bit of a fuss when you pay if we You're stupid, it doesn't do much good, okay, let's throw it in some corners so we don't have to rely on the rear suspension anymore on the back of this, as I'm sure James told you, but oh, that's good, oh, that's a fun little car.

I love these little things, it's like pulling and grabbing to get a thick feeling, it's like it reminds me of a hot mini hatchback. I can feel the rear starting to turn a little, you can feel the steering. fantastic in these corners too. I thought this earring was a little strange at low speed, although I feel like it really stands out here, although it is decent in the center feel and the weight definitely increases in the middle of a corner, it is slow, but it feels good to stand the steering is licensed I hadn't issued the ratio on the master it's strange it's necessary by that I mean it takes a lot of steering input to turn and Mazda claimed they did that because they think of everyone corrects when they turn.

I actually don't agree. I can't turn one hand to turn the master and I'm annoyed because it seems to have a more manageable steering ratio. The driving position is excellent. The steering wheel feels great. No. I am not surrounded by a wonderfully beautiful Japanese living room, but it is functional in a few more corners. Know? What if you put sticky tires on it? This would be a really fun little autocross car. You feel a little understeer, but this brake. the vectoring does things that make it feel good and honestly it feels agile this is a fun car and when you combine it with this absolutely stellar cabin I don't know what more you want between these two cars oh it feels fun on the cone . h, this is as much fun as that master in these corners, more body roll on this, which I didn't expect, there is literally no engine braking in this sport mode, I have to brake like I just maintain my momentum in those corners, which is disturbing in a good way, okay this is an equally fun car to drive as the maestro and I feel just as in control, however that interior in the maestro is just the mouse playing chess while this thing Play checkers, as you in North America would say.

Elantra is great don't get me wrong and it's fun but this is a win this is the one I would take so we both liked driving the Elantra in the back row and honestly it's an easy car to live with , but in the end the day the new

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won us both over, it's great to have a great look to drive and it easily ticks all the boxes, but in a few weeks we will have the Mazda 3 with all-wheel drive, so be sure to subscribe and press the bell so you don't miss it